The Snapdeal protests, which broke out at Snapdeal’s Sarita Vihar office 2 days ago, have just gotten messier. After the agitating employees had approached the CM Arvind Kejriwal’s office, the Delhi government has directed the Labour Department to look into the matter. Snapdeal has requested for a 2 day period to explain its stand to the Labour department.
Protests at Snapdeal’s office have intensified as management and the fired employees have been unable to reach a compromise.
Snapdeal’s former employees are not holding back while criticizing their former bosses.
Flipkart’s valuation has been devalued. According to Morgan Stanley, Flipkart is now worth only $11.1 billion – a full 27% below its valuation of $15.2 billion at which it had raised money last year.
Jabong’s Chief Marketing Officer Saurabh Srivastava has quit less than 5 months after joining the company. Srivastava had joined Jabong in October last year, and had replaced Praveen Sinha, one of Jabong’s co-founders, who had quit to start his own venture.
Vijay Mallaya has announced that he’s resigned as Chairman of United Spirits. The company, which is now controlled byBritish multinational Diageo, has agreed to drop all charges of irregularities under his watch. Mallaya will also receive Rs. 515 crore over 5 years in return for stepping aside.
Incredible scenes were witnessed at Snapdeal’s New Delhi office after the company put 200 of its employees on a Performance Improvement Plan.
The spate of employee layoffs has finally reached e-retail companies. After Helpchat, Zomato, TinyOwl and several others had fired employees over the course of the last few months, it has emerged that Snapdeal is on the verge of laying off as many as 200 employees from its workforce.
“India’s looking as sweet as Kulfi!” to 500 Startups at the moment, as it has launched 500 Kulfi, a $25 million India-focussed fund. The fund will be sector agnostic, but will focus on FinTech, EdTech, Health & Wellness, Data Analytics, Content and SaaS and SMB.